Limits for your LUIS model and keys

Article
02/19/2024

Important

LUIS will be retired on October 1st 2025 and starting April 1st 2023 you will not be able to create new LUIS resources. We recommend migrating your LUIS applications to conversational language understanding to benefit from continued product support and multilingual capabilities.

LUIS has several limit areas. The first is the model limit, which controls intents, entities, and features in LUIS. The second area is quota limits based on resource type. A third area of limits is the keyboard combination for controlling the LUIS website. A fourth area is the region mapping between the LUIS authoring website and the LUIS endpoint APIs.

Model limits

If your app exceeds the LUIS model limits, consider using a LUIS dispatch app or using a LUIS container.

Area	Limit
App name	*Default character max
Applications	500 applications per Azure authoring resource
Batch testing	10 datasets, 1000 utterances per dataset
Explicit list	50 per application
External entities	no limits
Intents	500 per application: 499 custom intents, and the required None intent. Dispatch-based application has corresponding 500 dispatch sources.
List entities	Parent: 50, child: 20,000 items. Canonical name is *default character max. Synonym values have no length restriction.
machine-learning entities + roles: composite, simple, entity role	A limit of either 100 parent entities or 330 entities, whichever limit the user hits first. A role counts as an entity for the purpose of this limit. An example is a composite with a simple entity, which has 2 roles is: 1 composite + 1 simple + 2 roles = 4 of the 330 entities. Subentities can be nested up to 5 levels, with a maximum of 20 children per level.
Model as a feature	Maximum number of models that can be used as a feature to a specific model to be 10 models. The maximum number of phrase lists used as a feature for a specific model to be 10 phrase lists.
Preview - Dynamic list entities	2 lists of ~1k per query prediction endpoint request
Patterns	500 patterns per application. Maximum length of pattern is 400 characters. 3 Pattern.any entities per pattern Maximum of 2 nested optional texts in pattern
Pattern.any	100 per application, 3 pattern.any entities per pattern
Phrase list	500 phrase lists. 10 global phrase lists due to the model as a feature limit. Non-interchangeable phrase list has max of 5,000 phrases. Interchangeable phrase list has max of 50,000 phrases. Maximum number of total phrases per application of 500,000 phrases.
Prebuilt entities	no limit
Regular expression entities	20 entities 500 character max. per regular expression entity pattern
Roles	300 roles per application. 10 roles per entity
Utterance	500 characters If you have text longer than this character limit, you need to segment the utterance prior to input to LUIS and you will receive individual intent responses per segment. There are obvious breaks you can work with, such as punctuation marks and long pauses in speech.
Utterance examples	15,000 per application - there is no limit on the number of utterances per intent If you need to train the application with more examples, use a dispatch model approach. You train individual LUIS apps (known as child apps to the parent dispatch app) with one or more intents and then train a dispatch app that samples from each child LUIS app's utterances to direct the prediction request to the correct child app.
Versions	100 versions per application
Version name	128 characters

*Default character max is 50 characters.

Name uniqueness

Object names must be unique when compared to other objects of the same level.

Objects	Restrictions
Intent, entity	All intent and entity names must be unique in a version of an app.
ML entity components	All machine-learning entity components (child entities) must be unique, within that entity for components at the same level.
Features	All named features, such as phrase lists, must be unique within a version of an app.
Entity roles	All roles on an entity or entity component must be unique when they are at the same entity level (parent, child, grandchild, etc.).

Object naming

Do not use the following characters in the following names.

Object	Exclude characters
Intent, entity, and role names	`:`, `$`, `&`, `%`, `*`, `(`, `)`, `+`, `?`, `~`
Version name	`\`, `/`, `:`, `?`, `&`, `=`, `*`, `+`, `(`, `)`, `%`, `@`, `$`, `~`, `!`, `#`

Resource usage and limits

Language Understand has separate resources, one type for authoring, and one type for querying the prediction endpoint. To learn more about the differences between key types, see Authoring and query prediction endpoint keys in LUIS.

Authoring resource limits

Use the kind, LUIS.Authoring, when filtering resources in the Azure portal. LUIS limits 500 applications per Azure authoring resource.

Authoring resource	Authoring TPS
F0 - Free tier	1 million/month, 5/second

TPS = Transactions per second

Learn more about pricing.

Query prediction resource limits

Use the kind, LUIS, when filtering resources in the Azure portal.The LUIS query prediction endpoint resource, used on the runtime, is only valid for endpoint queries.

Query Prediction resource	Query TPS
F0 - Free tier	10 thousand/month, 5/second
S0 - Standard tier	50/second

Sentiment analysis

Sentiment analysis integration, which provides sentiment information, is provided without requiring another Azure resource.

Speech integration

Speech integration provides 1 thousand endpoint requests per unit cost.